The Kids Are All Right

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A sharp script, great cast, plus spot-on and funny sex make this Californian family comedy a scream, says Kate Muir

The cast of The Kids Are All Right doesn’t get better: Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo and the young Mia Wasikowska. Plus there’s a witty, sharp-eyed script. What makes this Californian family comedy rather daring — at least for Tea Party America — is that Moore and Bening are a lesbian couple whose comfortable life together implodes when their teenage kids seek out their sperm-donor father.

These are two actresses at their confident peak, so much so that you feel like a voyeur of their domestic life together rather than a cinemagoer. Bening plays Nic, a perfectionist doctor, and Moore is